Year: 2018

A big thank you to all those who attended our Birthing Kit Assembly Days this year. We are delighted to say that we successfully packed 10,000 kits that will now head to Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, DR Congo and Uganda.

Check out our video of the excitement of the day!

Birthing Kits 2019

Please keep Wednesday 14th August (EKKA day) and/or Saturday 17th August 2019 free for next year’s event.

Birthing Kits Assembly Day 2018

Support Zonta Brisbane City Breakfast Club and you’ll be rewarded!

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We have the opportunity to passively fundraise with Wines Direct.. The amount received directly by the club will be $6 on every dozen purchased, plus on other occasions – it can be $30 per dozen. Those people that purchased would have an account with wine direct with the Zonta affiliation (similar to my CPA or frequent flyer number). Then you just login when you need to repurchase. More information to come. If Zontian’s decide to leave this page and shop elsewhere within our site they have already been electronically tagged which means we will be able to identify them as Zonta Breakfast Brisbane should they purchase…  https://www.winedirect.com.au/wine-fundraiser/?group=zontabb

With the benefit of all our supporters we achieved the 100,000 birthing kit milestone in 2017 which was such an exciting event to share.

We now need to re-group to focus on the girls and women who require us to be focussed on our next Zonta Birthing Kit Assembly day to ensure the women in rural and remote locations of PNG and other developing countries do not suffer from infection during childbirth, detrimentally affecting both the mother and the child.

We are currently planning the 2018 project so aiming to assemble 10,000 birthing kits with the assistance of 500 volunteers.

In this our 13th year we need your help in seeking support and sponsorship for this event

Diarise for Wednesday 15^th August and Saturday 18^th August for volunteering.

If you have never joined us before please email me at zontabb.birthingkits@gmail.com so we can include you on the mailing list.

On the 13^th of May – a number of members walked donning their Zonta says NO t-shirts in the Mothers’ Day Classic Walk – fundraising for Breast Cancer.

Join the Zonta Club of Brisbane Breakfast for our annual Mother Daughter breakfast on Friday the 4th of May, at the Brisbane Club. Tickets available at ZontaTickets.

This year our featured speaker will be Louise Fitzgerald-Baker of ‘The Pink Hard Hat’ – coach, author, mother, and all around accomplished woman.

Here’s a bit about Louise from her website, thepinkhardhat.com.au :

I’m a busy wife and mother of 3 daughters and built a career in the construction industry, before turning my attention back to training and coaching.

Like you, I have learned to juggle.

And dance.

And mostly keep it together.

But it hasn’t always been that way.  

As an entrepreneur, I have been tested.  

There were days when I didn’t have the answers, direction or experience to know which step to take next.   

So I set about making a plan from which to construct my life. 

I wanted to build the life I had always imagined. 

And yes, I built my home in the process.

I lovingly decorated it and created a place for us to live. 

But beyond that, I set about putting the necessary measures in place to ensure this home was protected, and that my daughters had their own blueprint for life, love, health and business. I have written a book on it, and now coach and train women all over the world to apply the same principles so that they, too, can build and insulate their lives.

So come along, bring your mother or your daughter – or even some special friends. We’d love to see you there!

Any proceeds raised from this event will go towards our worthy service projects in support of the vital work they do to assist and empower women in Brisbane.

Secure your tickets here: https://zontatickets.com.au/event/zonta-mother-daughter-breakfast-6896

Zonta District 22 is an Alliance Partner supporting the Mother’s Day Classic.

Visit http://www.mothersdayclassic.com.au/ to find out how you can join us in support of this event, and this worthy cause.

On Friday the 6th of April 2018, we will welcome our guest speaker Anastasia Magriplis, State Manager Volunteering, UnitingCare Queensland.

Anastasia has been working with volunteers throughout her career.  Firstly with Greenpeace Australia as the Queensland Community Activist Coordinator where she coordinated a team of thirty volunteers until today where she is responsible for over 6,000 volunteers in forty programs across the state at UnitingCare Queensland.

Anastasia has managed volunteer programs including telephone Crisis Supporters, events, business and operations volunteers as well as employment initiatives including Work for the Dole, Rehabilitation Employment Schemes and Federal and State Government Employment Programs. She has also managed volunteers for the Lifeline Brisbane Bookfest, an event that has been rated the largest second hand book sale in the world. The Bookfest, which in 1999 had a team of seventy volunteers and raised around $150,000 has been expanded to now having up to six hundred volunteers and raising around $1,000,000 per event.

Anastasia understands volunteers and their management from both an operational and strategic perspective.  Through her experience, passion for innovation has seen the expansion of volunteer involvement in all aspects of the UnitingCare Community’s operations across Queensland. She is passionate about the contributions volunteers make to the community and regard volunteers as the heart of the Not for Profit sector.

For more inspiration, have a look at this article on Volunteering Queensland’s website:

https://www.volunteeringqld.org.au/145-nvw/nvw-media-general-releases-2/1416-managing-1-5-million-hours-of-volunteering-anastasia-magriplis